A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood We all have a LOT to learn from Fred Rogers! His kindness and willingness to serve has not gone unnoticed! How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.agiledad.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

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  It's Friday, so it's time for our Agile Not So Agile episode of the Daily Stand Up Podcast. And let me tell you, I had the opportunity to go to my mother-in-law's house and we watched a movie. Now, the movie we watched was called The Beautiful Day in a Neighborhood. And what I can tell you is at first I thought skepticism. It's a story about Fred Rogers, as in Mr. Rogers, as in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. And I first thought, oh, boy, this is gonna be just the bore of the century. And Tom Hanks, you know, I love him to pieces, but I couldn't picture him portraying Fred Rogers. Well, let me tell you, not only was it impressive, but I was in for the surprise of my life.

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  This movie really did some amazing things for me, and let me explain what I mean by that. I had the opportunity to see

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  a news reporter who was a total skeptic about everything, get really upset that he was gonna have to do this feature story on Mr. Rogers, and then watch him change his life as a result of learning about kindness and how far kindness can take you. Now, once again, I wasn't necessarily set on the movie until until a few key things happened, and I don't want to do spoilers, but what I will say is this.

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  What we learn in a movie is that each one of us faces different challenges. Whether it's a child trying to cope with adult themes like overcoming death of a loved one, or trying to understand why bad things sometimes happen to good people. Or whether it was children just trying to understand why people sometimes behave the way they do or say the things they say, why people behave, or should I say, misbehave, and cause other people anxiety or grief. What I quickly discovered is that Fred Rogers was a man beyond man. And what I mean by that is,

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  he had a way of making every single person, regardless of where you were and what you were doing, he had a way of making you understand that you were worth it, that you were special, and that, and that what was happening in your life actually mattered. Whether it was the simple act of him taking a photo of everyone that he interviewed or interacted with and said, "Oh, I'm gonna collect these photos. My wife will love these," and sharing those with his own family, or whether it was the acts of kindness that he did for other people throughout his journey, throughout his mortal journey. What I can tell you is, everything from debauching systemic racism to,

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  to showing people that regardless of who we love, who we worship, where we are in our lives, and what was happening, that you too could be filled with kindness. And never in a million years did I picture myself doing a podcast episode about this. But what I can tell you is, I want to tell you the three key takeaways, the three things that I got from this movie that I was not expecting to happen, that I was not expecting to receive. So let's start at the top. Number one, right out of the gate, I was not expecting to discover how authentic Fred Rogers really was. He, he was a man of his word. When he said something, he did it. When people asked him for things, he did those.

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  When people wanted to celebrate with him, he celebrated. And what I can tell you is, it made for incredible television, but it also made for an incredible life. And I was nothing less than impressed by him as a person. The second thing that I learned is that no matter how dark of a situation you're in, that if you leave with kindness, that you could, that you can, you can make a difference in the lives of others. And I knew this all along, but watching someone... With the utmost kindness, watching someone who celebrated kindness in a way that you know, you never saw anywhere else before. That was pretty insane and pretty amazing.

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  And he always looked for the better in people. And he was never quick to judge. All the things that I hope to be. And the third one, I don't know if you come from a spiritual perspective, but no matter who you worship, he really wanted to find ways to live a God-centered life. And what I mean by that is instead of getting angry, he would take out his anger in a pool by swimming laps as fast as he possibly could. Instead of just saying, hey, I'll keep you on my thoughts. He would keep a notebook and call people up by name every single day that he was thinking of. Um, instead of saying he would do stuff and then not doing it, he was always quick to follow up on what he said he was going to do, and he always did what he said.

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  What I'm trying to say is there was so much more to this man than we than we put out there. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful that he existed. I'm grateful for the show. And it gave me a renewed energy when I learned about his puppets and how those puppets came to be and what they meant to him. When I learned about the love that he had for other people, when I learned about how he, how he conducted his life and how he, how he decided who was going to be an integral part, an integral part of what he did. And the people he surrounded himself with and how much they cared about him. And I think that at first, many of those people maybe didn't even understand him, but as they did, and they learned just what kind of person he was,

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  it changed everything. It, it just made him that much more remarkable. So normally I would never go off on a tangent and talk about, hey, you gotta watch this movie, but in this case, I am just gonna say, you need to see this movie. If you do, you will not be disappointed. It lived up to all the expectations, all the hype. And I couldn't be more happy or proud that I did. That's gonna do it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have a topic you want us to discuss, learn more at agiledad.com. We'd love to hear from you. And as always, we encourage you to stay healthy, stay well, and stay agile, my friends. Until next time, do take care. Bye now.